MAXMEM and RAMdisk are not main theme on this thread,
so I don't want to describe details here, but I must say,
"RAMdisk is effective for SuperPI, especially in 8M or above, I believe."
And about MAXMEM, it's mainly used for RAMdisk now.
You say "expensive"...mine is "free", i.e. the RAMdisk by free software.
You can download it from the URL below:
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/winnt/h.../se108927.html
Yes it's a japanese free software, but don't blame me...
My usual setting is:
<img src="http://222.151.185.113/c-board/file/ERAM_setting_usual.png">
This setting gives 393216kB RAMdisk as Z: drive.
The disk image area is derived from main memory,
so we need to restrict amount of memory used for system,
by MAXMEM description in boot.ini.
In early times, MAXMEM itself was effective for SuperPI...
...yes SuperPI, but especially for SuperPI Japanese version.
I don't know why it is so, but very effective on the system using Celeron.
Now, for SuperPI mod1.4/1.5XS, MAXMEM itself has little effect, I think.
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